http://heartoftheinitiate.com/taxonomy/term/24/all en http://heartoftheinitiate.com/workshops/brazil/ayahuasca/healing-superfoods <p><img src="/images/workshops-brazil-upcoming.jpg" alt="Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature Workshop" width="495px" height="93px"></p> <h5>Healing Superfoods</h5> <p><img src="/images/healing-superfoods.jpg" alt="healing superfoods" align="right">The workshop space is designed to assist and support each person in the cleansing and detoxification process that naturally occurs during the week.</p> <p>Our diet will mostly consist of delicious local bahian-style cuisine of natural fruits, vegetables, chicken, fish and seafood (we can accommodate vegetarian, vegan and other dietary needs).</p> <p>In addition, we will be incorporating several healing superfoods into our diet. Super-Food is considered to be the one which contains all or most of the following characteristics:</p> <p><strong>Antioxidants</strong> are an umbrella name for many substances that retard the body's normal process of oxidation, meaning a reaction to oxygen that releases "free radicals" that damage cells and break the body down. Digestion releases free radicals from food. Antioxidants help prevent this and also destroy free radicals and slow oxidation, reducing allergies, heart disease, cancer and aging effects. Dozens of antioxidant nutrients have been identified so far, and there are likely many more.</p> <p><a href="http://heartoftheinitiate.com/workshops/brazil/ayahuasca/healing-superfoods">read more</a></p> açai antioxidants brazil workshops carotenoids flavonoids healing superfoods phytonutrients Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:34:38 -0500 Webmaster 13 at http://heartoftheinitiate.com